"You've been talking to the girl have you Slave Nano? And what have you told her?"
"Mistress, I started to tell her the story of how she got here."
The black cat cowered before the commanding figure before him, his head hanging forlornly. He knew instantly from her stance and the tone of her voice he had displeased her, that his decision to start recounting his tale to Kim was a mistake and that he would have to pay for it. A purple clad figure balanced on high heels towered over him, her eyes flashing with anger. Her purple streaked hair bobbed before him as she set about reprimanding him. Her voice echoed around the corridor with a latent menace the black cat recognised and which he knew bode ill for him.
"So, she understands the part you have played in her past. Having seen the girl, now fallen from the grace of my presence and tutelage and put away in a massage parlour to be debauched by worthless males who only care for their own sexual needs, I hope you are suitably contrite about your failings that have contributed to her fate."
"Yes Mistress Nemesis, I felt sorry for her. She seemed so confused and sad and when she started asking questions it was obvious I knew something about her past so it was difficult not to tell her something."
"So, you took it upon yourself to tell the tale of how she came here without consulting your mistress?"
"Yes Mistress Nemesis, I'm very sorry."
"Did you not think that I would want to choose when to let the girl have that information?"
"Of course Mistress I can see that. I thought I was helping. I can see I've made a grave mistake. I'm really sorry."
"It's me, and only me, who decides what is for the best in Nemesisland. After all this time in my servitude haven't you understood that yet? The problem is you are thinking for yourself slave. You have surrendered control to me; you don't need to do that any more. It's dangerous for you Slave Nano because there are so many snares you can get trapped in. And there's another thing Nano. I think you like the sound of your own voice too much. You wanted to tell the girl your tale; I believe you think it gives you some importance in my world. It wouldn't surprise me if you felt sexually excited by the girl Nano and you know how perilous that is for you. Well, let me tell you slave, I'll soon disabuse you of any illusions you might have about your place in Nemesisland."
"Honestly Mistress, I don't think that's it. I just felt sorry for her. I wasn't thinking. I realise now I shouldn't have said anything without your permission Mistress."
"Yes, and I'll make sure you learn your lesson. You are lucky on one count, slave, I'm not concerned that the girl Kim has started to learn something about herself. She still has a long way to go before she will truly submit to me and understanding something of her strange past might help her on that path. The time is ripe for her to learn these things. I will create a situation where you are together again and, now, I give you permission to complete the tale when there is an opportune moment. But, that has no bearing on the punishment you will face for acting without my authority. I don't lock you away just for you to sit there chatting to my other servants in Nemesisland, do I?
"No you don't Mistress Nemesis, I'm very sorry."
"I've had enough of you now Nano. Vicky Duchess, take him away and lock him up in the cage. I've already thought of a fitting way to deal with him. I'll stay here and wait for the girl to come out of the clinic."
The Duchess attached a lead to the collar and led the black cat away as his mistress had commanded. Mistress Nemesis perched herself on top of toadstool shaped stool of bright yellow with red spots that Vicky Duchess had set down for her. She waited in silent contemplation for the arrival of Kim.
I want this girl for my slave girl, she reflected. Seeing her again makes me realise why I chose her to have a place in my world in the first place and, despite being so used in the brothel, she still has something special about her. She's got many of the qualities I desire to see in a slave girl and she can be trained in the rest. It's not just that she is lovely, her golden hair, voluptuous curves and ample breasts make her a fitting complement to my obsidian blackness. I can see it, she imagined, slaves will be captivated by her, she can be used to lure them into her world with the promise of erotic delights, she can tantalise them, until they see that she is unattainable and the only path is submission to me. But, it's not just her alluring and sensual looks, she has more than that. She is willing and ripe to be moulded to my needs. She is playful and imaginative and will go further for me than merely obeying orders parrot fashion; her behaviour in the pit and at the tea party has demonstrated that. She wasn't just following a command, she entered into the role, she became the other person that I created for her and revelled in it. She became a character in Nemesisland.
And yet, Mistress Nemesis considered, she still has a lot to learn before she can truly submit. I have to take her further. She must be made to face her innermost darkest desires and admit to them and then follow the path that has been laid out for of her own free will. I desire her though. Oh yes, I want her in my world and I will have her. It will require all of my skill to take her with me though. I have to push her boundaries further and further without breaking her and losing her. She has to submit to me knowingly and willingly. She smiled to herself. Oh yes, it's a challenge, but I know I will win her over in the end and I will enjoy every moment of the journey. I will push her, I will take her with me, until she realises who she really is and all resistance collapses until she offers herself to me and she is mine; my slave girl.
Mistress Nemesis was lost in her reverie when she heard movement from the corridor. Kim had emerged from Nurse Sally's clinic. Kim was buzzing. The heady experience of carrying out the medical treatments, the feeling of control over the patient and his helpless submission at her hands had made her light headed. And it was most strange, she had also got a sense of satisfaction from being told she had performed well. She had stripped off and left her nurse's uniform on a chair outside the door of the clinic as she had been told and was now anxious to get back to the cage with the black cat to hear the rest of his tale.
As she hurried down the brightly lit corridor towards the gloomy passage where the under-stair cage was she had a slight twinge of disappointment to see the cage was empty, its door left swinging open and its entrance guarded by another figure. Kim had now ceased to be surprised at how this mysterious figure who controlled this world could appear in different guises as before her was Nurse Sally, who she had left behind in the clinic and could not possibly have passed her in the corridor, let alone have got changed so quickly, dressed in a very different costume.
The dim light of the passage way was still strong enough to reflect off the shiny purple pvc cat-suit she was wearing. The penetrating blue eyes, framed by the black purple streaked hair, fixed onto her. At her gaze Kim's heart jumped a beat and this disturbing need, this yearning desire to give herself up to her that she had experienced when she first met the Red Queen, washed over her in luxuriant waves of submissive feeling. Bizarrely, the purple figure was sat on a chair that was shaped and coloured like a toadstool. Suddenly Kim realised seeing the figure clad entirely in skin tight purple and she couldn't help but blurt out.
"A purple caterpillar!"
Without ever surrendering her haughty presence of power and control the purple figure allowed herself the slightest of smiles at Kim's exclamation of recognition.
"Yes girl, that's right, the purple caterpillar."
"I've just come from Nurse Sally's clinic and look I've got a certificate," Kim said holding out the scroll.
"Yes that's very good Kim," the purple caterpillar's smile broadening as Kim's infectious enthusiasm, even naivety, touched her.
"Where's the black cat?" asked Kim.
"Oh, he has displeased me and will be dealt with later, in my own time. But, come and sit down here at my feet, girl."
Kim felt fearful for the black cat. It was clear his mistress was angry with him over something and she could only think it was for telling her the tale. Kim so wanted to hear how it finished and feared that now the cat had been put away she would never find out what happened to her. But Kim did as she was told and sat down on the cold floor at the purple caterpillar's stiletto heeled feet. The caterpillar adjusted her choker, a piece of purple silk with a black jewel set in it, looked down kindly at her and gently started to touch Kim's hair with her elbow-length purple gloves. Kim got a warm tingly feeling from this attention like a cat curled up in its owners lap. The purple caterpillar bent down and whispered slowly and firmly in her ear.
"So, tell me girl, who.....are....you?"